Thanks Fraggler... last night I went and bought 6' of Cryo's The Wire -Copper plus a few mini plugs to build a mini-mini and rewire my LOD for the fuze... just to test the wire before going all out. I'll check out doublehelix, I'm all about more beer money.

Yeah... and then you realize that there really is no such thing as "signal" and "ground" wires - it's not like "music" travels up the signal wire, through the driver and down the ground wire - it is a constant change in electric potential between two points (amplifier output) that are connected. Those two points just happen to be connected by two wires (which people say are "ground" and "signal" and stick a speaker in between).

Hello.
I'm planning to make some IC for CarAudio. So I selected some components on Markertec, do you think they are ok?
Neutrik NYS373 RCA
Canare L-4E6S Star-Quad
Techflex NMN0.25BK Nylon Multifilament 1/4 Inch

P.s. I found some pictures of Neutrik 373 and it ssems that it has short "ground_body" without any holes...
But I also found many positive reviews, where people says that this Neutrik is easy to solder. So I'm a bit confused now =\

I'm thinking of making my own cables (mainly 3.5 to 3.5 and 3.5 to rca), and I want to make something like this:

how much of a difference does shielding actually make? and does the braiding somehow shield the cable (yeah, I'm a newbie =)?

The braid does a little bit to reject noise. Not sure how much shielding really matters. I have used shielded cable and naked braids like in the picture you quoted and I have never heard a difference. I use my stuff on my desk under my monitor, next to speakers, etc. Short answer, don't worry about it, unless you are in a really electrically noisy environment (car might be one place you would want shielding).

eagerly awaiting all of my supplies to come in the mail. Want to make an RCA interconnect following this (sort of):DIY Silver Interconnects

I am wondering what the actual function of the ground is? I think it is supposed to be neutral or carry no signal? In the above link it uses silver for both the return and the signal. does the return need to be silver to maximize the effect or would copper work just as well? what about silver-tinned copper for the return?
thanks

eagerly awaiting all of my supplies to come in the mail. Want to make an RCA interconnect following this (sort of):DIY Silver Interconnects

I am wondering what the actual function of the ground is? I think it is supposed to be neutral or carry no signal? In the above link it uses silver for both the return and the signal. does the return need to be silver to maximize the effect or would copper work just as well? what about silver-tinned copper for the return?
thanks

well he did make the guide him self and he does sell the stuff him self so if it was me i would push the expensive silver as much as possible get my point ?